PubMed · 10288858
Due to its size, Barnes Hospital had a logjam of asynchronous data. Lab interface workstations are used to alleviate the problem.
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Within the frame of inprocess analytics of the synthesis of pharmaceutical drugs a lot of HPLC methods are required for checking the quality of intermediates and drug substances. The methods have to be developed in terms of optimal selectivity and low limit of detection, minimum running time and chromatographic robustness. The goal was to shorten the method development process. Therefore, the screening of stationary phases was automated by means of switching modules equipped with 12 HPLC columns. Mobile phase and temperature could be optimized by using Drylab after evaluating chromatograms of gradient elutions performed automatically. The column switching module was applied for more than three dozens of substances, e.g. steroidal intermediates. Resolution (especially of isomeres), peak shape and number of peaks turned out to be the criteria for selection of the appropriate stationary phase. On the basis of the "best" column the composition of the "best" eluent was usually defined rapidly and with less effort. This approach leads to savings in manpower by more than one third. Overnight, impurity profiles of the intermediates were obtained yielding robust HPLC methods with high selectivity and minimized elution time.
Reversed phase liquid chromatography was combined with the multiple stage mass analysis capability of an ion trap mass spectrometer for the characterization of permethylated oligosaccharide mixtures. The new method was used to separate the components of an unlabeled permethylated maltooligomer ladder, a 2-aminobenzamide-labeled (2-AB) maltooligomer ladder, a complex mixture of 2AB-labeled bi- (B), tri- (T), and tetraantennary (Q) standards, and a mixture of recombinant glycoprotein carbohydrates from soluble CD4 with varying sialic acid (S) content. Using reversed phase HPLC, permethylated mixture components including alpha and beta anomers were separated based on their structures. Fluorescent labeling with 2-aminobenzamide prior to permethylation was employed for off-line method development, but was not necessarily required for mass spectral analysis, as permethylation alone improved the ionization and fragmentation characteristics of the molecules. Antennae composition of permethylated derivatives was determined in MS(2) where the fragmentation patterns of the Y- and B-ion series predominated, and then further evaluated in MS(3), which provided additional information on branching obtained from A and X cross-ring fragmentation.
The Agilent 2100 bioanalyzer (Agilent Technologies, Palo Alto, Calif.) utilizes capillary electrophoresis on a microchip device (LabChip 7500; Caliper Technologies, Mountain View, Calif.) that is capable of rapidly sizing small DNA fragments. To determine whether the system could replace conventional restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) typing by agarose gel electrophoresis, we compared the analyzer with conventional flagellin RFLP for typing Campylobacter jejuni. Ninety-seven isolates representing 46 Fla types were initially analyzed. Correct Fla types were detected in 59% of the isolates. The major problem with the system was in resolving samples containing multiple DNA fragments differing from 8 to 20 bp. Overall, the bioanalyzer has the potential to replace conventional RFLP analysis by gel electrophoresis, but improvements in the chip separation are needed.